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 Central Illinois conductor returns
from Eastern European tour
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[July 28, 2007]
SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Symphony Orchestra
assistant conductor and Sangamon Valley Youth Symphony music
director recently returned from Eastern Europe, where he led four
concerts in Romania and Bulgaria. Richard Haglund was invited to
conduct the orchestras of the Timisoara Philharmonic and Cluj
Camerata in Romania and the Gabrovo Chamber Orchestra and Pleven
Philharmonic in Bulgaria.
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 All four concerts featured American composers, and several
performances featured special guests. The Cluj Camerata welcomed
Illinois Symphony Orchestra clarinetist Sunshine Simmons to perform
the Copland Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra. The Gabrovo Chamber
Orchestra featured violinist Michael Antonello performing "Suite
Hebraïque" by Ernest Bloch, and Antonello also performed Beethoven's
Violin Concerto with the Pleven Philharmonic. Both Antonello's
performances featured him playing on one of the world's finest
Stradivarius violins."The experience was outstanding," says
Haglund, "Even with language barriers, we can all communicate with
music. Perhaps this is a lesson for the world getting along."
Haglund led four concerts, 12 rehearsals, had numerous press
conferences and was featured on Bulgarian television for nearly an
hour.
He is now entering his fifth year as assistant conductor of the
Illinois Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Sangamon
Valley Youth Symphony.
For more information on Haglund, please call 217-553-2801 or
visit
www.richardhaglund.com.
[Text from news release received]
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